I've been wearing Ray-Ban Meta glasses almost every day for over a year. They're great for snapping hands-free photos, catching up on notifications, and listening to podcasts on bike rides, but they aren't the most customizable tech product out there. Still, they're not totally hack-proof. Below are five ways to mod your Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta smart glasses, use them in ways that are not "officially sanctioned," and generally make your smart glasses a little smarter than everyone else's.
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A dedicated Gmail account for tax information.
A Claude AI API key (a few cents per receipt)
How scanning receipts with your Meta glasses works
Step 1: Create a dedicated Gmail account for your taxes. This keeps everything clean and separate from your daily inbox.
Filters and Blocked Addresses > Create new filter.
Step 4: Create a Google Sheet called "Receipt Log" with these column headers: Date, Vendor, Amount, Tax Category, Notes, Drive Link.
Apps Script. I wrote a script with the help of Claude AI for this part, which you can find in the Google Doc here. This tells the AI to look at the receipt and figure out how to put it in the right categories; copy and paste it into Apps Script.
Step 7: In Sheets, go to Project Settings > Script Properties > Add. Add a property called CLAUDE_API_KEY and paste your key as the value. (Never paste it directly in the code.)
Things to keep in mind when using your Meta glasses to scan receipts
Save the paper receipts: You should get an error message if there's an issue reading a specific receipt, but since these are tax documents, keep copies of all of them, just in case.
You could use your phone to take pictures of receipts, too. It's not as elegant, and you have to use your hands, but it's easier to see that you've taken a clear photo.
Swap your Meta lenses out for different activities (no tools required)
To replace the lenses, place your thumbs near the bottom of the lens and push firmly and evenly to pop it out. To put a new one in, align it near the temple arm and gently push around the edges until it clicks into place with no gaps. Companies like Revant Optics and VR Wave make all kinds of lenses cut specifically for all models of Meta frames, both Ray-Ban and Oakley. Options include tinted, mirrored, polarized, and transition lenses, with prices starting around $40.
Here are a couple of other ways to make your AI voice better: In Settings, you can change the speed at which your AI voice talks to you. Setting it up to at least 1.25 is a must. In addition, you'd probably think switching to a "celebrity voice" would be annoying, but they generally sound more natural than Meta's stock voices (at least to me). It also doesn't change the things Meta says into what, for example, Awkwafina might say: It's just Awkwafina's voice saying the same thing Meta's voice would.
Turn your Meta glasses into the ultimate memo app
My Meta smart glasses get around eight hours of battery on a single charge, depending on how I use them, which sounds fine until I'm working overtime. Because there's no charging port on the glasses, you might think you'd be stuck with dumb glasses when the power runs out, but you can actually keep Metas going without using the charging case. There are a couple of options for on-your-face charging:
If you don't mind a cord running into your pocket, you can add a clip-on cable that links to the glasses' charging interface and runs to a power brick in your pocket. This extends the Meta glasses' life to as long as your battery of choice lasts.
Dishonorable mention: blacking out the camera light
It's no secret that you can block the indicator light on your Meta glasses and still use the camera, but you shouldn't do this. There might be a few legitimate reasons for it—maybe you're taking wildlife photos and you don't want to spook the animals, or you're using the glasses to take selfie videos in a mirror—but generally, the light is there to make it more obvious to others that you're taking a photo or video, so blacking it out is creepy.
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